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Oil Sands Seminar Hosted By Spartan Controls
Emerson Automation Delivers Customer Value
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Oil Sands Seminar
Emerson Automation Delivers Customer Value
On December 6, 2007, the third Oil Sands seminar will be hosted
by Spartan Controls. In the spirit of advancing our collective
knowledge and experiences with industry, the presenters will share
some of the best practices they have achieved (or plan
to achieve) in reducing both capital and operating expenditures
while increasing operational benefits. These benefits were
achieved using Emerson Automation in various Oil Sands
applications.
We are anticipating record attendance so register today to attend
a very informative and interactive forum. Network with others in
the Oil Sands industry and learn how you can best leverage your
next automation effort to achieve maximum value.
This automation seminar will focus on the following topics:
- Using Emerson Intelligent Device Manager During Tucker
Thermal Commissioning
- Joslyn Creek SAGD Automation Strategies and Experiences
- Building a Merchant Upgrader
- Extracting Maintenance Value From Automation
- Leveraging Sound Management Practices To Execute On
Growth
- Commissioning a World Scale Oilsands Upgrader Utilizing DeltaV and DeltaV SIS
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December 6, 2007
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Metropolitan Conference Centre
333 Fourth Ave S.W. Calgary
(Registration and continental
breakfast at 7:30 AM)
Opening Comments at 8:30 AM
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SPEAKERS
Dave Zebak, Total E & P Canada
Jim Quinn, NWU
George Cushon, OPTI
Rob Bronson, Husky
Craig Cassell, Suncor
John Gardner, Emerson |
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Register Today Online
or Call Donna Cooper at (403) 695-2754
or by Email cooper.donna@spartancontrols.com |
| Program Agenda - Thursday, December 6, 2007 |
| 7:30 - 8:30 |
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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 8:45 |
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Rick Anderson, Vice President Business Development, Spartan Controls |
| 8:45 - 9:15 |
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Using Emerson’s Intelligent Device Manager During Tucker Thermal Commissioning
Rob Bronson, P.Eng. Project Lead, Husky Tucker Thermal SAGD Project
- Tucker Thermal I&C philosophy
- Maintenance philosophy
- Commissioning strategy
- Future impacts to plant operations
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| 9:15 - 9:45 |
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Joslyn Creek SAGD Automation and Experiences
Dave Zebak, P.Eng, Engineering Manager - Facilities, Total Exploration and Production Canada
- Introduction to TOTAL
- Joslyn Creek SAGD project details
- Key automation strategies and experiences
- Future development plans
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| 9:45 - 10:15 |
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Networking and Refreshments |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
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Building a Merchant Upgrader
Jim Quinn, P. Eng. Vice President Engineering, North West Upgrading
- Project overview
- Why Team Emerson?
- Expected value from automation
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
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Commissioning a World Scale Oil Sands Upgrader Utilizing DeltaV and DeltaV SIS
George Cushon, P. Eng. Project Manager, Automation, OPTI Canada Inc.
- The basis for design of a fieldbus based DCS integrated with an SIS (Safety Instrumented System)
- Location engineering with distributed layout of the field I/O cabinets
- Use of Foundation Fieldbus and HART technology to minimize labor during commissioning
- How integrated DeltaV DCS and SIS technologies meet safety, maintenance and operations goals
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
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How Suncor is Extracting Maintenance Value from Automation
Craig Cassell, P Eng. Maintenance Manager, Suncor
- Introduction to Suncor Firebag
- Delivering PlantWeb value
- Asset and task prioritization
- Asset Portal integration and future integration with SAP
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| 12:00 - 1:00 |
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Lunch & Keynote Speaker - Leveraging Sound Management Practices to Execute on Growth
John Gardner, Senior Vice President Global Sales, Emerson Process Management
- Oil Sands industry from an Emerson perspective
- Share best practices and competencies in planning, resources and management processes
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| 1:00 - 1:15 |
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Closing Comments - Mike Begin, President and CEO Spartan Controls
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